λαγχάνειν (lanchanein)

λαγχάνειν is an Ancient Greek form of λαγχάνω, meaning “obtain by lot, receive”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.24: … αὶ οἱ πλέοντες μὴ ναυαγήσωσι, καὶ οἱ δουλείαν καὶ δεσμὸν φοβούμενοι, οὗτοι μὲν οὔτε σίτου οὔθʼ ὕπνου δύνανται λαγχάνειν διὰ τὸν φόβον· οἱ δὲ ἤδη μὲν φυγάδες, ἤδη δʼ ἡττημένοι, ἤδη δὲ δουλεύοντες, ἔστιν ὅτε δύνανται καὶ μᾶλλον τῶν …

All forms of λαγχάνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.